Epigraphia Indica Vol 16

SR No.: 032570
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: F W Thomas, H Krishna Sastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 474
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

Page 108

No. 11.)
THREE INSCRIPTIONS FROM HOTTUR.
Purigere or Puligero Three-hundred (11, 28, 39); the six-hundred composed of Beļvals and Puligere (11. 31, 39); Molavall (1. 36); Kallavana (1. 36); the Ninety-six (1. 40); the Kengere or "Red Tank" (11. 41, 42); and Bāņarāsi, i.e. Benares (1. 43), Somanätha is of course the famous sanctuary of Somnath in Junagarh State ; and Panungal is now Hångal. Pannāļa, elsewhere termed also Pannaleya-kote, Pannāle-durga, Praņiļaka-durga, and Padmanāļa-durga. is now Panbala, about 12 miles NW. of Kolhapūr (see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 546). Baleyayattana is mentioned again in Ep. Carn., Vol. II (Inscr. of Sravana Belgola), No. 56 (cf. ibid., introd., p. 41, and Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 496). I venture to identify it with the modern Baliapattam (more correctly written Vaļapattanam), lying in lat. 11° 55' and long..75° 22' in the Chirakkal taluka of Malabar District, a few miles NW. of Cannanore, Baliapattam was a place of considerable importance in early times; it is the Balaipatna (wrongly written in some editions as Baltipatna) of Ptolemy's Geography, VII. i. $ 6, and apparently the Palaipatma of the Periplus (cf. McCrindle, Ancient India as described by Ptolemy, p. 45, and id., Commerce and Navigation of the Erythrean Sea, pp. 127, 129; Lassen, Alterthümer, III, pp. 181, 183); and there is much likelihood in Kern's view that Ptolemy's Balaipatna is the Baladevapatapa men, tioned in Varäba-mihira's Brihat-samhita, xiv. 16. Bijavadi is uncertain : it may conceivably be the modern village of Bijwådgi near Hungund. Dora, if it is a geographical name, may possibly be the same as Dorasamudra. On Beļvala see above, Vol. XIII, p. 40; on Puligere or Purigere, ib., Vol. XIII, pp. 179, 188. Malavalli is possibly Munawalli, a village about 47 miles SSE. from Shiggaon, 1 miles SE. from Hottir, and mile NW. from Bankåpår, .
TEXT,
[Metres : v. 1, Kanda ; vv. 2 and 5, Champakamala; v. 3, Anushtubk; v. 4, Salini.]
1:..Śrimatu mūsu nāda sumkigaruv-iļdu munne nadev-åru părina
mēle 2 ... [ka]runyadim dharmma-chitta p utti mattam bitta pēsu 1 antu 7
pēr[u]m [l] bidad-iļda[m] kavile brahmar 3 [naruman-a]i[da] pancha-mahi-patakan-akku 4 [Svasti samasta-bh]avan-iśraya Sri-Pri(pri)thvi-vallabha maharajadhiraja paramo
svara paramabhaçtāra kam SatyĀśraya-kola-ti5 [lakaṁ Chā]}uky-abharaṇam Srima [j*]-Jagadēkamalla-Jayasimga-dëvara räjyam
uttar-uttar-i6 [bhivriddhi)-pravarddhamanam-a-chandr-[&]rkka-täran baram saluttam-ire | tat
pāda-padm-Opajivi srimad-A. 7 [kkā]-dēviyar-Vvanevase-pannirchhäsiramuvam fu(su)kha-fa (sa) mkatha-vinodadin
&luttam-ire 8 [Sva]sti samadhigata-pancha-mahá-labda-mahamaņdaļēsva(éva)ran Banavasi-puravar,
ēgva(éva)rama-ahi9 [ta-ba]!a-jala-vimathana-janita-vira-lakshmi-viräjita-prachanda-dor-ddanda birudara
gapdan-adata10 [ra taļa)-prahari subhata-Murari sähas-öttumga Harik [X•jntana simga vira-$21-pavitra
SU11 [bhata-Tr]iņētra Rudr-avatara nåm-ädi-samasta-prasa (sa)sti-sahita sriman-Mayira
varmma dēvar B& 12 [Davā]si-pannirchhchhāsiramumam Panum gall-syntiruman-ekiyatpadin®-a]da gukha
samkathå-vinodadolaire !
From the ink-impression.
• Rend -ka-chokhattradis- [or jb atapatradin-,-Ed.).